A three-day film festival, ‘We Care’ was inaugurated at the Apeejay Institute of Mass Communication (AIMC) in Delhi. Every year, ‘We Care’ aims to sensitise students and the society at large towards issues associated with the differently-abled people and make them realise that there have special skills which renders them fit to be called specially -abled people.
The festival was organised in association with internationally recognised Brotherhood NGO and with the support of UNESCO, National Trust and the UN Information Centre. This is the sixth consecutive year that AIMC has hosted the festival.
The various films screened were Tunnel, an animated film with a powerful message of how a blind child is helping normal children to cross a tunnel, Accsex, a film which speaks beautifully about the emotions of the disabled women since emotions are not choosy. Dr Paw, another film which deals with dog therapy that does wonders for the disabled. Other renowned films included Fixed, an International film which gave knowledge of how science and technology is proving to be a great assistance to the disabled. There were other movies too like White Balance, Dark and two short films — I, Me and Myself and Teleprompter produced by students of Apeejay Institute of Mass Communication.
Aparna Sanyal director of Drop Of Sunshine shared her thoughts on the making of the movie and the challenges in undertaking such a project. The festival saw good participation from students of various schools and Universities across NCR. A photography exhibition was also organised on the theme. Ajay K lal, Jt Secretary & CEO, National Trust; Kiran Puri (Joint secretary and Financial Advisor: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment), Joginder Singh (IAS retd), were the chief guests of the event on three separate days.
Besides, the other guests who threw light on this sensitive topic were: Shigeru Aoyagi (director and UNESCO representative to India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri lanka), George Abraham (founder, Score foundation), Retd Air marshal- Denzil Keelor, Arfa Khanum (senior anchor: Rajya Sabha TV), Satish Kapoor (founder of the NGO Brotherhood).